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From: jjb@wsu-cs.uucp (J. Brewster)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
Keywords: nomatch
Message-ID: <741@wsu-cs.uucp>
Date: 29 May 89 00:35:40 GMT
References: <185@icdi10.UUCP> <730@dtscp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjb@cs.wayne.edu (J. Brewster)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Wayne State University
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In article <730@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
->May 27 00:29	local	Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT"
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-Now for nearly a month, I have been getting mail that says this.  Now
-please do not tell me it is the same articles hanging around since
-we have a 3-day expire on comp (7 days on sources), and 2 days on
-everything else--that is if expire does not get the picture that
-we are nearly 20 years past this date :-)
-
-Where do these come from?  Does the SysAdmin for the site producing
-these know about them?  How does one find out who, what, where, etc.
-concerning articles about these dates?
-
-Inquiring minds... well... are just curious!	:-)
-
I've seen this too, and don't know exactly where it comes from, but
the date and time correspond to -1 sec...
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